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Regeneration

Ólafur Arnalds

His research focus has been on the soils of volcanic areas, genesis and properties of Icelandic soils, ecological restoration and carbon sequestration.

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Parts

  1. Nikola Brabcová & Karin Šrubařová, Erosion
  2. Ólafur Arnalds
  3. Bjarki Bragason, Before Present
  4. Ladislav Miko
  5. Tomáš Šenkyřík, Zelinka
  6. Kristína Jamrichová, And clouds of dust and sand used to rise over the plain...
  7. Lucie Lučanská, Scratching the surface
  8. Ruta Putramentaite & Jonáš Richter, you deassemble and reassemble me again
  9. Hana Šantrůčková
  10. Marina Hendrychová, Lycaeon
  11. Bryndís Snaebjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Time and Again & Time and Tide
  12. Karel Prach
  13. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Epidermis
  14. Magdalena Manderlová, HISS
  15. Thomas Pausz, Making New Land / Silica Cinema
  16. Jana Stachová
  17. Wiola Ujazdowska, The Prophecy of Lupine the Sun that Never Sets
  18. Gústaf Jarl Viðarsson
  19. Aliaksandra Yakubouskaya, Interspecies Dreaming
  20. In Search of Porcelain
  21. Landscape of Iceland
  22. Radek Štěpánek, Erosion

Ólafur Arnalds

Ólafur Arnalds has a Ph.D. in Soil Science from Texas A&M University. He has been a professor at the Agricultural University of Iceland since 2005 (Dean until 2012). He has participated in numerous international research and policy programs related to soil and environmental sciences (e.g. EU COST, and Nordic networks). He served three years on the board of the Icelandic Research Fund. Ólafur has emphasized outreach programs and the development of educational materials in addition to scientific publications. See www.moldin.net for his CV and publications.

His research focus has been on the soils of volcanic areas, genesis and properties of Icelandic soils, ecological restoration and carbon sequestration. He has written/co-written and edited/co-edited several international scientific books on soils, soil conservation, and rangeland sciences in addition to numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is also the author of the Icelandic soil map and The Soils of Iceland. His program on "Soil Erosion in Iceland" earned the Nordic Nature and Environmental Award in 1998. He has devoted efforts on aeolian processes in Icelandic desert areas and has quantified/mapped dust production from Icelandic dust sources. Ólafur also ran successful legal campaigns to make information about agricultural subsidies in Iceland public, as part of his environmental activism.

Directed by: Nikola Brabcová a Karin Šrubařová

Camera: Ivan Svoboda, Nikola Brabcová

Cut: Darina Štěpánková, Nikola Brabcová, Karin Šrubařová

Sound postproduction: Martin Hůla

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